Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Erection of steel for the $20 million Statler Hotel and Office Building in Los Angeles, completed by Western Steel Corporation

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Erection of steel for the $20 million Statler Hotel and Office Building in Los Angeles, completed by Western Steel Corporation

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Photograph of a steel frame erected by Consolidated Western Steel Corporation for the $20 million Statler Hotel and Office Building in Los Angeles.; "United States Still Corporation / Subsidiaries / Public Relations. Los Angeles District / Erection of steel for the $20,000,000 Statler Hotel and Office Building in Los Angeles has been completed by Consolidated Western Steel Corporation, a U.S. Steel subsidiary. The skeleton mass of metal in this picture represents over 7,200 tons of steel, mainly large girders, held together by over 200,000 rivets.; The building is 13 stories high and due to long non-parallel wings, the hotel section will have 1,275 outside rooms. There will also be a height-limit office building with 120,000 square feet of office space; a 500 car garage; a laundry capable of serving a city of 20,000 and 70,000 square feet of shops located on three levels.; The project is the largest hotel constructed in the United States constructed in the last twenty years and the biggest construction job on the West Coast since the War [sic]. As well as handling the erection, Consolidated Western Steel Corporation also fabricated the steel at its Maywood Plant here in Southern California.; Please credit U.S. Steel Photo / 402 Pacific Mutual Building. Los Angeles 14, California" -- typed note attached to verso.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

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Title Erection of steel for the $20 million Statler Hotel and Office Building in Los Angeles, completed by Western Steel Corporation

Subject Hotels -- California -- LA -- LA Statler (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Statler Hotel (manmade features), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1951

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1951

Creator U.S. Steel Photo (photo studio)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3760

Identifier EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-STA-017 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90885 (legacy record id), examiner-m3760 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-STA-017 (original filename), 4897 (unidentified no.), 58A-5 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90885

Unique identifier UC11733209

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-HOT-CAL-LOS-ANG-STA-017.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
33.1 cm × 41.2 cm at 300dpi

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Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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